So grateful for this moment in comp the other day :) sorry for the blur, I was trying to catch it before the match started.
We held the first point of Numbani on defense. While I was saying “good job team we got this” during prep for attacking, Dragonmaster decided to say “we don’t need a girl to be our leader”
… Ummmmm…
I didn’t say anything. I was just stuck with my eyebrows raised. But the rest of my team jumped in right away to say:
- that was not nice
- what does male / female matter?
- I don’t think we would have been able to hold that without the callouts
- why don’t we be positive?
- she can lead, great call outs
Ha ha! This is what Jeff was talking about… The community taking responsibility for harassment.
I deal with a lot of harassment on overwatch and have noticed this pattern: when teammates say nothing, or join in, the harassment gets worse and worse and the game goes down the drain. But when people turn their backs to the harasser with even the bare minimum of disagreeing with their words, it helps so much to keep things going well for the game (not to mention the effect it has on the mind of the person being harassed….)
So yeah! Shout out to my team from the other day for being awesome.